How much would you say a game developer in a company gets paid a year? And is this accumulating over months of pay or do they get paid when the game is released?

AlmightySenator

Game programmers, like an programmers, will get paid a weekly/bi weekly check. It'd be absurd to think that some guy is forced to starve until the release. I'd imagine they'd have some sort of profit sharing so that a great release would incur a bonus, but yeah, they get normal paychecks.